Breast Care Nursing Assistant

jobs24.co.uk; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a Band 3 Breast Unit Assistant in Bury St Edmunds. Join a dynamic multi-disciplinary team dedicated to providing high-quality care and improving services for patients. This role offers the chance to support various interventions, work collaboratively with nursing and imaging staff, and contribute to the development of healthcare services. If you are adaptable, enthusiastic, and committed to delivering exceptional patient care, this is the perfect role for you. Be part of a flourishing team that values inclusivity and teamwork while striving for outstanding clinical outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in a healthcare setting, particularly in patient care roles.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Support and deliver interventions within the Breast Unit.
• Assist with interventional procedures and patient monitoring.
• Communicate effectively with care team and patients.

Skills

Effective communication

Team collaboration

Patient care

Training and development

Education

Relevant healthcare qualifications

Job description

Responsibilities:

1. Support and deliver a range of interventions within the Breast Unit.
2. Participate in the delivery of daily routine activities with patients, e.g., setting up and assisting with interventional procedures, preparing the sterile procedural equipment for interventional procedures, ensuring the patient is correctly prepped, positioned and monitored throughout the procedure, and direct/support other imaging assistants in delivering care/supporting colleagues with interventions.
3. Attend meetings as required and disseminate information to the team appropriately.
4. Communicate effectively with the multi-disciplinary members of the care team, patients, and their family/carers on care related issues.
5. Provide and support training, competency completion, and development activity with the Breast Unit workforce.
6. Participate and support in the implementation of service developments.
7. Understand the sensitive nature of the role.
8. Work collaboratively with the nursing and imaging staff to provide full Breast Unit Assistant cover for all clinics and procedures undertaken within the Unit.

A new and exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Breast Unit Assistant has arisen within the Breast Team, Bury St Edmunds, covering the West Suffolk area. If you are looking for a fulfilling and varied role, with a genuine desire to provide high quality care and a commitment to improving the service, then we want you as part of our team.

This is a new role to the unit and we wish to find the right candidate to take on the role, be adaptable and enthusiastic about making the role their own whilst enjoying the stability of joining a well-established and flourishing team who share the vision and goal to strive for the best for our patients.

As a team, we continually strive to develop our quality health care services and we are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated person to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary service. The successful applicant will be joining an innovative team of clinicians providing high quality health interventions as part of the wider forward-thinking, diverse multi-disciplinary team, working collaboratively with nurses and other professional clinicians.

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We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home, and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit, and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety, and teamwork guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

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